The prowess and temptation of the single Journey To The Edge suggested that the debut album of US duo OTHERED would be one fruitful and adventurous affair. So with anticipation rife, we keenly delved into Othered Vol. 1 only finding… Read More ›
Doom Metal
Northmaan – Self Titled
And from the darkness came a warrior, a Caledonian like Viking intent on conquering the senses and plundering the imagination, taking them to a better place. In his hands is a weapon of sound, an album forged of industrial metal… Read More ›
Raging Speedhorn – Hard To Kill
At the time of its release four years back Lost Ritual had our appetite for Raging Speedhorn’s voracious metal sounds at their greediest by far. A longstanding but maybe not quite dedicated relish for their intensive roars was suddenly thrust… Read More ›
Victorian Whore Dogs – Afternoonified
From the voracious trespass of Afternoonified there is no hiding place for the body and emotions, no safe haven within a sludge/doom metal bred consumption of the senses from a band ready to devour far broader attention than already incited… Read More ›
King Goat – Conduit
Two years ago, UK progressive doomsters King Goat more than impressed with a self-titled EP; a release awakening a new horde of eager ears and appetites to their dark and invasively invigorating metal exploits. Now two years on, give or… Read More ›
Blood and Crom: talking Conan with Jon Davis
January saw the unleashing of the new Conan album Revengeance, a leviathan in barbarous weight and corrosive intensity which outshone its equally punishing and exhilarating predecessor of 2014, Blood Eagle. Let off the leash via Napalm Records, Revengeance is a… Read More ›
Slave Cylinder – Cultus
Having your chest crushed by the physical weight of a behemoth is maybe the best way to describe how Cultus devours and suffocates ears with its doom laded proposal. The two track oppression is an insatiable consumption from US band… Read More ›
Conan – Revengeance
Crushing and suffocating as it corrodes the senses, the new album from doomsters Conan is set to be one of if not THE most primal trespass on body and soul heard this year. It will certainly take something leviathan in… Read More ›
The Lumberjack Feedback – Blackened Visions
As debut albums go, Blackened Visions from French instrumental progressive doomsters The Lumberjack Feedback is a colossus, though maybe that is not so much a surprise given the impressive and intensive tempest of their earlier offerings. The new album though… Read More ›
My Dying Bride – Feel The Misery
Never having been smitten by the My Dying Bride sound but equally never having felt the compulsion to turn the other way when it has stood before us either, taking a look at the band’s new album Feel The Misery… Read More ›